Hendrik Van der Noot

Hendrik Van der Noot (7 January 1731-12 January 1827) was Prime Minister of the United Belgian States from 11 January to 2 December 1790, during the Brabant Revolution.

Biography
Hendrik Van der Noot was born in Brussels, Brabant, Austrian Netherlands on 7 January 1731. Van der Noot was a lawyer in the years before the Brabant Revolution, and Van der Noot became the leader of the conservative "Estates Party" during the revolution against the Holy Roman Empire. The Belgian revolutionaries made good progress at the start of the revolution in late 1789, as they had Prussian backing, and Van der Noot became the first (and only) Prime Minister of the "United Belgian States" on 11 January 1790. However, Prussia pulled its support from Belgium after 27 July 1790, when it improved its relations with Austria. In November 1790, he fled to the United Provinces as the revolution was crushed by the Austrians, and he later sought to collaborate with the French occupiers of Belgium. In 1796, he was imprisoned and held at s' Hertogenbosch, and he died in Strombeek in 1827.